> Santens is 37 years old, and he’s a leader in the basic income movement—a worldwide network of thousands of advocates (26,000 on Reddit alone) who believe that governments should provide every citizen with a monthly stipend big enough to cover life’s basic necessities
So basically he’s lazy and doesn’t want to work is what he’s really saying.
I'm not so sure.
Of course, the promoters of such a program should get more than just a living wage for the service they have provided the proles, oops, uhhhh, the PEOPLE (yeah, PEOPLE, that's it). (/s, of course)
I think this guy is just looking to become a future guru of wealth redistribution, and as such get more redistributed to him (with the blessings of the masses, of course).